1. Literary Terms ReviewPowerPoint

2. Second stage of plot; builds suspense and interest

3. Rising action

4. Story handed down by generations, usually based on some fact

5. legend

6. Imaginative writing where the laws of nature do not operate

7. fantasy

8. Comparison between two unlike things using “like” or “as”

9. simile

10. Dictionary definition of a word

11. denotation

12. Scene which interrupts the action to show earlier events

13. flashback

14. Characteristic speech of a particular region or social group

15. dialect

16. Narrative/story of past events and characters, partly historical but mostly imaginative/fictional

17. Historical fiction

18. Human qualities given to non-human things

19. personification

20. Reason for writing; writers want to explain, inform, persuade, express, entertain, etc.

21. Author’s purpose

22. Writer tells the story and focuses on one character; pronouns “he,” “she,” and “they” are used

23. Third person point of view

24. Time and place of a story

25. setting

26. Conflict between two elements in a person’s mind or heart

27. Internal conflict

28. All the emotions associated with a word: positive, negative, or neutral

29. connotation

30. Vantage point from which a story is told

31. Point of view

32. Conversation between two characters

33. dialogue

34. A writer hints about something that will happen in the future

35. foreshadowing

36. Writer tells life story of a person

37. biography

38. General message in a literary work

39. theme

40. Attitude an author takes toward the subject, characters, and readers

41. tone

42. Outcome of the story; loose ends are tied up

43. resolution

44. Being at odds with another person, society, or nature

45. External conflict

46. Quality in a story or poem that makes the reader tense or uncertain about the outcome

47. suspense

48. Writing that tells a story with a theme

49. Narrative writing

50. Category of literature (example: fiction, biography, fantasy, drama, etc.)